Mark Mills

ENERGY

Co-Founding Partner

Cottonwood Venture Partners

Mark Mills, co-founding partner in Cottonwood Venture Partners, an energy-tech venture fund, is also a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University's engineering school. He writes a column for Forbes.com on the intersections of technologies and is published widely, including frequently in The Wall Street Journal. He earlier served as chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies, helping take it public in a 2007 IPO. He is author of Work In The Age Of Robots (Encounter Books, 2018), and earlier co-authored the book, The Bottomless Well, which rose to #1 in Amazon science. He served in the White House Science Office under President Reagan, and previously was an experimental physicist and engineer in semiconductors and fiber optics, working at Canada's Bell Labs and RCA's Sarnoff Research Center.